The body was laying straight, forearms up. Clothing & skin had a thin layer of frost mixed with soil of a uniform brown color. The face, almost unrecognizable, was contorted.
I looked at the two, who were nervously shifting foot to foot.
"We should go over your timeline again. This is very important."
"Yessir."
"Tell me what happened first."
"Backed into the wall."
"Saw a hole"
"Then we saw a body."
I looked at them steadily.
"How long was it between when you put the hole in the wall, and you found the body?"
"Um. Er. Right away!"
"You are lying to me."
"No sir!"
"Why are you lying?"
"We aren't."
"You are! There had to be some time that passed between you backing into the wall, and then you retrieving your vehicle, and then finding a body."
"5 hours." said one of them
"Because it was stuck?"
"Yessir"
"Anything else you want to revise?"
"No Sir."
"Pardon me. But how did you know at all these boys were being dishonest about their timeline? How does that influence the fact that a body has been found?"
I looked at the superintendent. "It has everything to do with how the body was found."
The superintendent widened his hands, "So?"
"See the crystals and tearing on the edges of the clothing? This body has been moved from a different location. Someone placed it here after the hole was put into the wall."
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